Radina Matic
radina.matic@gmail.com 2013

# Understand Gtranslator main window

The main Gtranslator window contains the Menubar, Toolbar and the Workspace. Workspace allows you to visualize and edit the strings contained in the PO file. It is divided into three areas:

# Gtranslator window

Message Table (see the red area on the image above) contains columns with the list of all the strings (messages) in the source language on the left (Original Message), and their corresponding translations on the right (Translated Message). Depending on the size of the Gtranslator window and the number of the words, you may only view the beginning of the string.

Below the Message Table there are two fields which display the full content of the selected strings (blue area on the image above). The field Original Message is not editable but allows you to see the the entire content of the string, and the field Translated Text is where you type the translation.

Sidebar on the right (green area on the image above)contains the Translation Memory and the Message Details panels with additional information for the translation process.

To view the Message Details panel, use the shortcut Ctrl J.

To be able to view the Translation Memory panel, you need to activate the Translation Memory plugin: click the Gtranslator app menu in the top bar, select Preferences Plugins tab, and activate the corresponding check box.

# Open Preferences from the top bar

# Activate Translation Memory plugin